Nanking.

"Marquis Zhongyong, your wonderful ideas are really endless!"

Song Yingxing stood in front of a brick tower, looked at a busy soldier at the top of the tower, and said with interest.

At the top of the tower were several pillars, and on the pillars were beams, and on the beams there were a large number of attached bits and pieces, which were connected to the bottom by ropes, and the soldier was manipulating the ropes, so that the beams and the things on the beams were constantly changing positions......

Flag signals.

Or a bay-type signaling device.

Also called the French Tower.

To put it simply, it is to use the flag language, take the way of relay from the transfer station, send and receive information to the distance, and there is a similar tower in the north of the river fifteen miles away, where a soldier is looking at this place with a telescope, and then another soldier next to him is repeating. In the future, such towers will continue to be built to the north, all the way to Zhengzhou, and there will be a branch line to Xuzhou, and from Xuzhou to Yizhou and Dongping, and at the same time, a line from Nanjing to Hangzhou will be built to the east, a line from Nanjing to Wuchang to the west, and a direct line to the Shaoguan front line to the south.

Don't underestimate this rudimentary device.

It allowed Napoleon to learn that the Prussian army had broken through Munich more than a thousand miles away on the same day in Paris, and then to give the order to organize a counterattack to retake it, a rudimentary messaging device that was used for half a century until the invention of the cable telegraph made obsolete.

Of course, it also has significant limitations.

For example, in rainy and foggy days, it is definitely not possible, and it must be teleported to the next station on horseback instead, and at night it can only use light signals, so it can only send some simple messages, and the soldiers at the forwarding station are easy to be bribed to deliberately send wrong content......

The Count of Monte Cristo did just that.

He bribed the forwarding station to send false information, and finally made the enemy bankrupt.

But this does not change its value, it allows the transmission of information in the Ming Dynasty to get a qualitative change, after the completion of Yang Qing does not need to take another three or four days to know what happened on the front line in Zhengzhou, he can know on the same day. And what happened along the east coast of Zhejiang, he didn't even know in half an hour at the earliest, since he didn't have the ability to build a cable telegraph network for the time being, so let's make do with this first!

And not just sending military intelligence.

In fact, Jinyiwei branches everywhere can use it to send any urgent information that needs to be sent, and the confidentiality is very high, because this thing is not sent in Chinese characters at all, but directly in alphabet to send the content, but not English words but Hanyu Pinyin, no one in this world will decipher its content except for those signalmen.

One more point.

Relying on this fast and cheap means of information transmission, Yang Qing can run a newspaper, and he can be said to have the sole right to publish news, and he can run an authoritative newspaper like a certain newspaper in Nanjing, and publish news from various places through the content transmitted by this transmitter. It is impossible for anyone but him to know these things in the shortest time, which means that his newspaper publishes the most reliable news, and this newspaper will become the basis for everyone to discuss state affairs in the future.

It can also be done in other cities, and content can also be delivered through this system.

In this way, the right of public opinion is in hand.

The literacy rate of the people in Jiangnan is still very high.

In fact, after the emergence of this kind of thing in the original history of European countries, basically everything that could be transmitted was transmitted with it......

They built thousands.

It is found all over Europe, and there are even those that have survived to modern times.

"I have a lot of ideas.

What is this, I'm still researching how to use a copper wire to instantly transmit what happened thousands of miles away! It's just that something special is needed, and it can't be achieved for the time being.

You see.

Technology can solve a lot of problems.

And your sage books don't solve it at all.

In other words, I'm very curious, how did you Confucians get to where you are today, where everything is inferior, only high in reading, and despise all other industries? Do you really think that the sage book is omnipotent? You can't do what a craftsman can do, there was originally a gentleman and six arts, and now Confucianism estimates that none of the thousand can pull the bow, as for farming, it is a joke, you have read so many poetry books, which one taught you to cure seeds?

If you yourself are inferior to others in many things, why do you have to stop others from doing things that only they can do? ”

Yang Qing said.

"Well, Marquis Zhongyong, I have nothing against you!"

Song Yingxing said with a little embarrassment.

Yang Qing complained because his proposed reform of the imperial examination was strongly resisted by the cabinet ministers, and even unanimously threatened him to dare to divide the imperial examination, and these ministers resigned with the local officials.

It is clear that his sinister intentions are well known to everyone.

The current imperial examination system has ensured the complete control of the officialdom by the Wenchen, and Yang Qing can indeed reform the power that can control the imperial court, but he is under the condition that the Wenchen can still pinch his nose and endure it, in essence, the smooth implementation of the new policy is the result of the acquiescence and even cooperation of the Wenchen under external pressure. If he continues to advance inch by inch, the civil servants will be unable to bear it and unite with local officials to turn Nanjing into a lonely city where the decree does not go out of the city gate, they can easily do this, the local officials are all with them, Yang Qing cannot arrest all the local officials into the wolf's den, that will paralyze the whole country. And the continuation of the imperial examination system represents the continuation of this pattern in the future, because the selection power of officials is in the hands of civil ministers after all, after all, no matter how Yang Qing tosses, it cannot change the fact that officials have to choose from among the scholars, and no matter how he changes, he will not be able to escape the cage of civil officials.

But if it is reformed according to his imperial examination plan, it will be different.

What was originally one source has changed to many.

This is one source, and the ministers can ensure control.

According to Yang Qing's plan, the new imperial examination will be changed to liberal arts, agriculture, finance, engineering, medicine, and military science, a total of six subjects, each of which has its own different focus of the examination questions and channels for lifting people, and there is no longer a household registration restriction. In addition to the military examination, you can only enter the army, and the other five subjects are all into the officialdom, all of them are jinshi, and the liberal arts are the imperial examinations of the past, but the liberal arts and the other four jinshi are the same as the second officer, and they are selected according to their performance during the period of being the second officer.

That's crazy!

Taking engineering as an example, which of those eight-strand clerical students can pass the examination for the children of craftsmen? After the abolition of household registration restrictions, the children of craftsmen are not all illiterate, and people are not born dull, Wang Gen, the founder of the Taizhou School, is still a stove household that boils salt, which of those eight-strand scribes dares to say that he is overwhelmed by this stove household in terms of knowledge?

How can you win without relying on eight-share text?

But what about the end result?

Eight strands of Wenjin and engineering Jinshi are a starting point.

The same official, the same promotion, even if the officials can engage in unspoken rules, but when the local officialdom is full of this kind of miscellaneous officials, Wenchen will not be able to control the local officialdom.

Want to overhead Yang Qing?

That's easy to do!

Jin Yiwei went to prison, and randomly found a miscellaneous department to act as an agent, when the national officialdom was full of this kind of officials, even if Yang Qing just wanted to have a thorough purge, the civil officials were not able to resist, he had the Huangzhuang militia in the locality, and he had these miscellaneous scholars in the officialdom, and he established a political system that completely left the civilian officials.

He is playing with civil officials to draw salary.

Those civil servants are not stupid.

How could they possibly agree?

If you agree, you're digging your own grave!

"Song Gong, in my conscience, am I thinking about all the scholars in the world? Even if you have never been admitted to the Jinshi in your life with your talent, what if you are allowed to take the engineering exam? Jinshi is completely at your fingertips! Brother Qing, you haven't even been admitted to the exam, but if you want to take the medical exam, is it easy for you to get a jinshi? I can pat my conscience and say that it is all for the people who read in the world, how many people are reading in the world, and those who are literate are all readers, and the few who really come out of the Baguwen Road every three years? Why not give the reader an extra path? ”

Yang Qing said indignantly.

Song Yingxing smiled awkwardly, but Fu Qingzhu on the side smiled quite approvingly.

Fu Qingzhu is a native of Shanxi.

After Li Zicheng captured Shanxi, he fled to the south to join his teacher Yuan Jixian, and after Yuan Jixian's governor Huguang Jiangxi military affairs was revoked, he was transferred back to serve as the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, and Yang Qing knew that Fu Qingzhu was actually by his side. So under the banner of Princess Kunxing's love for the people, he officially established the Salesian Bureau in Nanjing, and set up Salesian Homes affiliated to the Salesian Bureau in all places, and the funds were provided by the princess.

In addition, the Salesian Bureau had to be used to train midwives in various places.

This is very important.

In this era, the neonatal mortality rate is too high, and it is necessary to use more scientific means to intensively train those midwives, and even the Salesian Hospital is responsible for managing this matter, and Fu Qingzhu, who is known as the medical saint of the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, is undoubtedly the most suitable.

Although they all knew that Yang Qing actually had ulterior motives, Yang Qing did say the voices of these readers who were proficient in miscellaneous studies.

You must know that even Song Yingxing has never been admitted to the Jinshi in his life, even if Fu Qingzhu is in his forties, he is only a prisoner, even Gu Yanwu is only a prisoner, or a prisoner, their talents are definitely the top talents at this time, and they are even the sons of a family, and Fu Qingzhu is also an official eunuch. But even so, they still can't go through the road of Baguwen, so what if they are given a road to the imperial examination other than Baguwen? Let them take the examination of engineering, medicine, agriculture, not to mention Jinshi, the top three are at their fingertips, then those civil servants will become their roadblocks, and the loyal and brave marquis will become their hope.

In the midst of this eerie silence, an officer rode up and presented a document to the chief.

"Hah, there's finally good news!"

Yang Qing looked at the official document in his hand and said with a relieved expression.

"Ladies and gentlemen, Henan is a great victory, the cavalry army and the first army defeated Jiannu in Tongwaxiang, beheaded 10,000, captured 8,000 enemies, Henan is ours!"

He then held up the official document and said.